First, a note about the picture. Yes, the handle is missing. It's not missing, it just wasn't installed yet but that was my oversight.Second, yes, those are yearling calves licking my truck in the background. All the way around and as high as they could reach. Photobomb stars. Second pic is the inaugural crush. A fresh, still cold, Lone Star can. How apropos!Now to the point of the review. The Master Crusher is awesome. A few weeks before, my cousin mentioned how great it would be to have a can crusher so we didn't end up with everything from mineral tubs, seed bucket on our late uncles brother's ATV, random boxes filled with cans and bottles. Lucky everyone is pretty good about not just dropping trash.That got me looking for a can crusher because I'm kind of the clean freak that tries to do little things to keep things cleaner and neater. Fast forward past hunting and reading reviews, I find the Master Crusher, not only sounding like a great, solid crusher for a semi-outdoors application, and not just made in the USA, but in Texas, and even Houston (where I grew up) so clickity click, I get one in the way. I had it in my hands in a few days.I had to find a way to mount it, solidly on the pipe post/drill stem of the shed/cover so I grabbed a piece of 2x6 I had laying around with marks like I'd used if for smacking bearings of something, picked up some SS hardware and 'viola, a mount solution. To class up the joint, I burnished the pine 2x6 with a torch to give it that classy look that would blend in with the rustic, drill stem it would be mounted to.Ok, humorous story aside, I got it mounted like a rock, got a lined trashcan secured below it and off to crushing a mineral tub full of nasty cans and plastic bottles. Now, this is in Trinity County where the ground is dusty, like dust, fine dust that when dry and windy, everything gets dusty, especially crushing who knows how many dirty, dusty cans and bottles, the Master Crusher was kind of a mess. I cleaned the rails off and put a little oil on them and I think we'll be good but may need to clean it every now and then. Not much you can do about that.It works great! It's easy to crush cans and bottles, although as you'd expect, if you try to crush a partially crushed or bend can or bottle, it may try to pop out if you don't orient it the right way. Once crushed, just slip it out to fall into the trashcan a go for the next.I'm glad to report that no one that used it that first weekend needed special training. Everyone was certified to crush their own cans/bottles and it seems it'll be a hit.To the comments about bending or breaking handle. I can't see how, unless you're on the 18th can to crush, after emptying, all 18 yourself, and it wasn't Coke. What I can see, is carelessness causing the support bars to bend from trying to crush a can sideways. Really, it's easy to see the handle comes down, straight down, and maybe has a little side to side tolerance, but if you try to push it in a direction it's not supposed to go, you might be successful in bending it. The handle itself, it's solid. It might take a little patience to screw in the extension but it seems that's by design. The threads seems to be meant to bind in each other making it solid and dry, so just go slow and make sure the threads aren't crossed (not easy to make that happen, but someone will try)Hope y'all enjoyed the review, it just seemed like one that a little humor would work, but don't skip over the point, this crusher is great and I expect it to be hanging right where it is for a long time. FYI, this thing looks good too, for what that's worth. Oh, well maybe one thing. The "Master Crusher" sticker....looks like it was printed from a handheld label maker, with old tape that doesn't really stick but got stuck on pretty quick, or the Sticker Installer was eating a Whataburger at the same time. It's mostly gone after use that weekend, or at least pretty banged up, but that has nothing to do with how great this Houston, Texas, USA made crusher really is!!

The above pictures show the before & after what this does to a 25oz can. Crushed 2 35-gallon trash cans of cans & filled up 1 20-gallon can. Works with very little effort. When installing use the enclosed with some metal washers into a wall stud. Absolutely love this simple machine. Crush crush crush cans. Would highly recommend this product very well constructed. Heavy duty. Not like the cheaper ones that will fail sooner than later. No buyers remose. Keep on recycling ♻️

Pros: will crush very large cansCons: expensive for what you getI bought this because I primarily drink 19 ounce cans and this is the only crusher that will fit those. If you don't need to crush cans that large go with something cheaper. For what you get it's very expensive. There's no anti slip pad on the bottom so the cans sometimes fly out instead of getting crushed. If this thing costed 30 or 40 bucks it'd be 5 stars but 3 times the price of the top rated can crusher its not worth it.

First day of usage: I was glad the individual whom invented and patented this device agreed to sell his product through the Amazon market place, because the previous can crusher that my old man had purchased (myself as a supporting college student, I have to be loyal with my folks) finally broke but it was a good can crusher for $10. I love my energy drinks, and especially I love my green tea which I can get in a 32 ounce can for about $1; it's inefficient to continue to put on a pair of boots to crush these cans to save space in the recycling. The next can crusher HAS to crush at least a 16 ounce can, the inventor of this product created this crusher to crush 32 ounce cans; and for a while you had to go through his linkage and Paypal to buy his product. Which is a whole new can of worms to open where-by it's just another way of sending monies to another party individual.In his linkage, YOU HAVE TO LUBE THE SLIDING PARTS with either some small machine oil or my favorite WD-40; I had no problems on the first day and it operates quite smoothly, and very powerful. Yes, I expect eventually through some good years with this product, it will break down like the previous model my old man had that was considerably smaller; or maybe my doubts are probably nothing. Because manufactures are getting better at engineering their products to last a life-time (between 50 to 70 years), my old man is very proud and happy to see this product in his garage; and I am happy because he is happy... After I installed the item in his garage the night before, (seriously, even in the North; it gets crazy humid and miserable, so I had to install this item at midnight when it was cool again); my old man is able to crush 16 plus size energy drink cans with no problem or fuss. On a bad day I can consume 10 of these a day, so you could probably imagine 2 weeks of built up stress with my energy drink consumption and how big that bag is going to be. Not anymore, it's 75% smaller and far easier to organize. And my dad is also more comfortable buying his tea in 32 ounce cans, when he knows he can crush it efficiently.April 10, 2018: I'm still not having any difficulties with this product. Routine oiling and cleaning with either WD40 or another oiling product is more than sufficient to keep the components running smooth since my last review, I still don't have any negative things to say about this product. I finally quit my energy drink habit (onto caffeine supplements) and moved on, sort-of; but this product will flat out continue to operate strong. I am saddened that this product is no longer offered on Amazon, so check-out his YouTube video. It's still the best purchase that I made for my folks, and one that I'm looking forward to installing in my permanent place soon.

My wife loves it! Uses it when she's had a bad day at work. Great stress releaver. Great build quality. Crushes cans very well. Have to make sure they don't pop out from the bottom plate. Only recommendation is perhaps put a rubber pad at bottom to prevent cans from slipping out. Highly recommend!!

Great and strong crusher. This is most likely my last crusher since it is so well made

The handle is long, two pieces, connected in the middle by a hidden press fit sleeve that runs into the inside diameter of each handle piece. This gives it good leverage for crushing. It comes all assembled, except the joint where the sleeve connects the two began to come loose, after about 30 cans the handle broke at this point (sleeve loosened and handle came apart). Either they need to have a one pc handle, or make a better connection than just a press fit sleeve. Otherwise it works great. I think the manufacturer can easily improve on this flaw.Thanks,Mike

This is a well built product for home use. Personally, it is fun crushing pop cans. I know this is probably a "guy thing", but there is that inner satisfaction is crushing those cans down to about 1/2" high. Additionally it means a lot less volume of recycling to be taken out of the house.

After some time using it, I have to say it is very powerful crasher.It crashes almost every beer can, with noticeable exception of Sapporo big cans.Size is not a problem, but they are made from very thick aluminum.Other then that, my only concern is that one has to learn how to place a canin the middle of crashing jaws, or can crashes into messy, off centered squish.